The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-02
c FOR FARMERS.

Iron filings and coal ashes benefit
year trees.
food culture Of young forestry
paintings pa Us as we'll as does thor.
ough cultivation of the corn crop.
1t is just as easy to break a calf to
be led by a halter as it is to do the
same with a colt, and it will often
saw labor.
Poor land produces milk that is
deficient in fatty matters and there.
fore better adapted for cheese than
butter making.
Every farmer should possess a
good chest of tools and a well-ar.
ranged workshop. He can easily save
the cost Of both within a few years.
Peach trees growing near the house,
where dish and wash water are
thrown out, are long. lived and free
from worms and disease.
Wire netting, two-inch mesh, is
now cheaper than boards as material
for fencing poultry, and a be more
easily arranged and with less labor.
1t pays to clean out the coops
every day. provided the droppings are
carefully preserved. The droppings
begin to d%eteriorate in quality as soon
as they reach the floor. Farm, Field
and Stockman.
A specified amount of food, say a
thousand pounds, evenly divided among
four hogs in separate pens. will pro.
duce one-tifth more pork than the same
amount fed to four hogs together.
Ben Perley Poore says salt is per.
haps one Of the best Of all known fer.
~tilizers for the plum. In its native
state, that of the beach plum, it is al.
ways found in situations where it is
copiously irrigated by salt water, and
is there never infested by the evils
which so greatly lessen its value in a
cultivated state. - Cincinnati Times,
-Foot-rot in sheep arises principally
from pasturing the sheep on damp
ground. Wet pastures are not suita.
BILE for sheep. 1t is much better to
compel them to climb steep hillsides,
and seek all their foul, than to be CONS
PEELED to remain..on good pastures that
are damp. A good dry pasture, how
ever, is better than either.
If you have patches in the corr field
where the corr fails from lack of good
seed. from ravages of squirrels, or 9TH
or cause, you have still less than no ex-
cuse for not raising some good field
pumpkins. They are relished by cows
during fall and early winter, and are a
material aid in furnishing green food
after pastures are dead. -Prairie
Farmer.
Those who look upon farming as
only an ordinary occupation are mis-
taken. As Prof. Wrighton. remarks,
agriculture is a born science. 1t is full
of botany, zoology, geology and ento-
mology. 1t is full of chemistry, from
the soil to the growing plant, the ripen-
ing seed and animal life which is the
browning outcome. There is no more
varied pursuit, and most arc narrow in
their scope in comparison with it.
Indianapolis Journal.
When fowls have to be confined to
20 pens their supply of green food is
cut off. and, although they can do with.
out it, there is nothing they re.
lish more and that will tend to
keep them in better health. This can
be supplied by planting in SUGGESTIONS
of two weeks, mustard seed. The
growth is quick and the fowls are fond
Of it, and all the trouble you will have
after planting is to pull and throw it
where the fowls a get It. Mustard
greens are also considered very fine by
some, and could be used on the table
Is we'll as fed to the chickens. st.
Louis Republican.